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PREFACE.
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Labyrinth at Versailles.
Sir Humphry Davy was born December 17, 1779, at Penzance, in Cornwall. His family was ancient, and
above the middle class; his paternal great grandfather had considerable landed property in the parish of
Budgwin, and his father possessed a small paternal estate opposite St. Michael's Mount, called Farfal, on
which he died in 1795, after having injured his fortune by expending considerable sums in attempting
agricultural improvements. Sir Humphry received the first rudiments of his education at the grammar-schools
of Penzance and Truro: at the former place, he resided with Mr. John Tomkin, surgeon, a benevolent and
intelligent man, who had been intimately connected with his maternal grandfather, and treated him with a
degree of kindness little less than paternal. His genius was originally inclined to poetry; and there are many
natives of Penzance who remember his poems and verses, written at the early age of nine years. He cultivated
this bias till his fifteenth year, when he became the pupil of Mr. (since Dr.) Borlase, of Penzance, an ingenious
surgeon, intending to prepare himself for graduating as a physician at Edinburgh. As a proof of his uncommon
mind, at this early age, it is worthy of mention, that Mr. Davy laid down for himself a plan of education,
which embraced the circle of the sciences. By his eighteenth year he had acquired the rudiments of botany,
anatomy, and physiology, the simpler mathematics, metaphysics, natural philosophy, and chemistry. But
chemistry soon arrested his whole attention. Having made some experiments on the air disengaged by
sea-weeds from the water of the ocean, which convinced him that these vegetables performed the same part in
purifying the air dissolved in water which land-vegetables act in the atmosphere; he communicated them to
Mr. Davy's first experiments as Professor of Chemistry in the Royal Institution, were made on the substance
employed in the process of tanning, with others to which similar properties were ascribed, in consequence of
the discovery made by M. Seguier, of Paris, of the peculiar vegetable matter, now called tannin. He was,
during the same period, frequently occupied in experiments on galvanism.
To the agriculturist, chemistry is of the first consideration. The dependence of agriculture upon chemical
causes had been previously noticed, but it was first completely demonstrated in a course of lectures before the
Board of Agriculture, which Mr. Davy commenced in the year 1802, and continued for ten years. This series
of lectures contained much popular and practical information, and belongs to the most useful of Mr. Davy's
scientific labours; for the application of chemistry to agriculture is one of its most important results; and so
rapid were the discoveries of the author, that in preparing these discourses for publication, a few years
afterwards, he was under the necessity of making several alterations, to adapt them to the improved state of
chemical knowledge, which his own labours had, in that short time, produced.
In 1803, he was chosen a fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1805, a member of the Royal Irish Academy. He
now enjoyed the friendship of most of the distinguished literary men and philosophers of the metropolis, and
enumerated among his intimate friends, Sir Joseph Banks, Cavendish, Hatchett, Wollaston, Children, Tennant,
and other eminent men. At the same time he corresponded with the principal chemists of every part of Europe.
In 1806, he was appointed to deliver, before the Royal Society, the Bakerian lecture, in which he displayed
some very interesting new agencies of electricity, by means of the celebrated galvanic apparatus 1 Soon
afterwards, he made one of the most brilliant discoveries of modern times, in the decomposition of two fixed
alkalies, which, in direct refutation of the hypothesis previously adopted, were found to consist of a peculiar
metallic base united with a large quantity of oxygen. These alkalies were potash and soda, and the metals thus
discovered were called potassium and sodium, Mr. Davy was equally successful in the application of
galvanism to the decomposition of the earths. About this time he became Secretary of the Royal Society. In
1808, Mr. Davy received a prize from the French Institute. During the greater part of 1810, he was employed
on the combinations of oxymuriatic gas and oxygen; and towards the close of the same year, he delivered a
course of lectures before the Dublin Society, and received from Trinity College, Dublin, the honorary degree
of LL. D.
In the year 1812, Mr. Davy married his amiable lady, then Mrs. Apreece, widow of Shuckburgh Ashby
Apreece, Esq. and daughter and heiress of the late Charles Kerr, of Kelso, Esq. By his union with this lady,
Mr. Davy acquired not only a considerable fortune, but the inestimable treasure of an affectionate and
exemplary wife, and a congenial friend and companion, capable of appreciating his character and attainments.
A few days previously to his marriage, he received the honour of knighthood from his Majesty, then Prince
Regent, being the first person on whom he conferred that dignity.
We now arrive at the most important result of Sir Humphry Davy's labours, viz. the invention of the
SAFETY-LAMP for coal mines, which has been generally and successfully adopted throughout Europe. This
invention has been the means of preserving many valuable lives, and preventing horrible mutilations, more
terrible even than death; and were this Sir Humphry Davy's only invention, it would secure him an
immortality in the annals of civilization and science. The general principle of this discovery may be described
as follows:
"The frequency of accidents, arising from the explosion of the fire-damp, or inflammable gas of the coal
mines, mixed with atmospherical air, occasioned the formation of a committee at Sunderland, for the purpose
of investigating the causes of these calamities, and of endeavouring to discover and apply a preventive. Sir
Humphry received an invitation, in 1815, from Dr. Gray, one of the members of the committee; in
consequence of which he went to the North of England, and visiting some of the principal collieries in the
neighbourhood of Newcastle, soon convinced himself that no improvement could be made in the mode of
ventilation, but that the desired preventive must be sought in a new method of lighting the mines, free from
danger, and which, by indicating the state of the air in the part of the mine where inflammable air was
disengaged, so as to render the atmosphere explosive, should oblige the miners to retire till the workings were
properly cleared. The common means then employed for lighting the dangerous part of the mines consisted of
a steel wheel revolving in contact with flint, and affording a succession of sparks: but this apparatus always
required a person to work it, and was not entirely free from danger. The fire-damp was known to be light
carburetted hydrogen gas; but its relations to combustion had not been examined. It is chiefly produced from
what are called blowers or fissures in the broken strata, near dykes. Sir Humphry made various experiments
on its combustibility and explosive nature; and discovered, that the fire-damp requires a very strong heat for
its inflammation; that azote and carbonic acid, even in very small proportions, diminished the velocity of the
inflammation; that mixtures of the gas would not explode in metallic canals or troughs, where their diameter
was less than one-seventh of an inch, and their depth considerable in proportion to their diameter; and that
explosions could not be made to pass through such canals, or through very fine wire sieves, or wire gauze.
The consideration of these facts led Sir Humphry to adopt a lamp, in which the flame, by being supplied with
only a limited quantity of air should produce such a quantity of azote and carbonic acid as to prevent the
explosion of the fire-damp, and which, by the nature of its apertures for giving admittance and egress to the
air, should be rendered incapable of communicating any explosion to the external air. These requisites were
found to be afforded by air-tight lanterns, of various constructions, supplied with air from tubes or canals of
small diameter, or from apertures covered with wire-gauze, placed below the flame, through which explosions
cannot be communicated; and having a chimney at the upper part, for carrying off the foul air. Sir Humphry
soon afterwards found that a constant flame might be kept up from the explosive mixture issuing from the
apertures of a wire-gauze sieve. He introduced a very small lamp in a cylinder, made of wire-gauze, having
six thousand four hundred apertures in the square inch. He closed all apertures except those of the gauze, and
introduced the lamp, burning brightly within the cylinder, into a large jar, containing several quarts of the
most explosive mixture of gas from the distillation of coal and air; the flame of the wick immediately
disappeared, or rather was lost, for the whole of the interior of the cylinder became filled with a feeble but
steady flame of a green colour, which burnt for some minutes, till it had entirely destroyed the explosive
power of the atmosphere. This discovery led to a most important improvement in the lamp, divested the
fire-damp of all its terrors, and applied its powers, formerly so destructive, to the production of a useful light.
Some minor improvements, originating in Sir Humphry's researches into the nature of flame, were afterwards
effected. Experiments of the most satisfactory nature were speedily made, and the invention was soon
generally adopted. Some attempts were made to dispute the honour of this discovery with its author, but his
claims were confirmed by the investigations of the first philosophers of the age."2—The coal owners of the
Tyne and Wear evinced their sense of the benefits resulting from this invention, by presenting Sir Humphry
with a handsome service of plate worth nearly two thousand pounds, at a public dinner at Newcastle, October
In 1813, Sir Humphry was elected a corresponding member of the Institute of France, and vice-president of
the Royal Institution; in 1817, one of the eight associates of the Royal Academy; in 1818 created a baronet,
and during the last ten years he has been elected a member of most of the learned bodies of Europe.
We could occupy many pages with the interesting details of Sir Humphry Davy's travels in different parts of
Europe for scientific purposes, particularly to investigate the causes of volcanic phenomena, to instruct the
miners of the coal districts in the application of his safety-lamp, and to examine the state of the Herculaneum
manuscripts and to illustrate the remains of the chemical arts of the ancients. He analyzed the colours used in
painting by the ancient Greek and Roman artists. His experiments were chiefly made on the paintings in the
baths of Titus, the ruins called the baths of Livia, in the remains of other palaces and baths of ancient Rome,
and in the ruins of Pompeii. By the kindness of his friend Canova, who was charged with the care of the
works connected with ancient art in Rome, he was enabled to select with his own hands specimens of the
different pigments, that had been formed in vases discovered in the excavations, which had been lately made
beneath the ruins of the palace of Titus, and to compare them with the colours fixed on the walls, or detached
in fragments of stucco. The results of all these researches were published in the Transactions of the Royal
Society for 1815, and are extremely interesting. The concluding observations, in which he impresses on artists
the superior importance of permanency to brilliancy in the colours used in painting, are especially worthy the
attention of artists. On his examination of the Herculaneum manuscripts, at Naples, in 1818-19, he was of
opinion they had not been acted upon by fire, so as to be completely carbonized, but that their leaves were
cemented together by a substance formed during the fermentation and chemical change of ages. He invented a
composition for the solution of this substance, but he could not discover more than 100 out of 1,265
manuscripts, which presented any probability of success.
Sir Humphry returned to England in 1820, and in the same year his respected friend, Sir Joseph Banks,
President of the Royal Society, died. Several discussions took place respecting a proper successor, when
individuals of high and even very exalted rank were named as candidates. But science, very properly in this
case, superseded rank. Amongst the philosophers whose labours had enriched the Transactions of the Royal
Society, two were most generally adverted to, Sir Humphry Davy and Dr. Wollaston; but Dr. Wollaston very
modestly declined being a candidate after his friend had been nominated, and received from the council of the
Society the unanimous compliment of being placed in the chair of the Royal Society, till the election by the
body in November. 3 A trifling opposition was made to Sir Humphry Davy's election, by some unknown
persons, who proposed Lord Colchester, but Sir Humphry was placed in the chair by a majority of 200 to 13.
For this honour no one could be more completely qualified. Sir Humphry retained his seat as President till the
year 1827, when, in consequence of procrastinated ill health, in great measure brought on by injuries
occasioned to his constitution by scientific experiments, he was induced, by medical advice, to retire to the
continent. He accordingly resigned his seat as President of the Royal Society, the chair being filled, pro tem,
by Davies Gilbert, Esq. who, at the Anniversary Meeting, Nov. 30, 1827, was unanimously elected President.
Since his retirement, Sir Humphry Davy resided principally at Rome, where a short time ago he had an
alarming attack of a paralytic nature, but from which he was apparently, though slowly, recovering. Lady
Davy, who had been detained in England by her own ill health, joined Sir Humphry, at Rome, on hearing of
his alarming state. Thence he travelled by easy stages to Geneva, without feeling any particular
inconvenience, and without any circumstances which denoted the approach of dissolution: but on Friday, May
29, 1829, the illustrious philosopher closed his mortal career, in the fifty-first year of his age, having only
reached Geneva on the day previous. Lady Davy had the gratification of contributing, by her soothing care, to
the comfort of his last days during their stay in Italy, and on their journey to Geneva, where they intended to
pass the summer, and hoped to have derived benefit from the eminent practitioners of that city. Sir Humphry
had also been joined by his brother, Dr. John Davy, physician to the forces in Malta, whence he came on
receiving the intelligence of his brother's danger. But all human art and skill were of no avail. The last and
During his retirement on the Continent, Sir Humphry continued to communicate the splendid results of his
labours to the Royal Society, and at the anniversary meeting of the year 1827, the royal medal was awarded to
him for a series of brilliant discoveries developing the relation between electricity and chemistry.5 Upon this
interesting occasion, Mr. Davies Gilbert spoke at some length, commencing as follows: "It is with feelings
most gratifying to myself that I now approach to the award of a royal medal to Sir Humphry Davy; and I
esteem it a most fortunate occurrence, that this award should have taken place during the short period of my
having to discharge the duties attached to the office of president; having witnessed the whole progress of Sir
Humphry Davy's advancement in science and in reputation, from his first attempts in his native town to vary
some of Dr. Priestly's experiments on the extraction of oxygen from marine vegetables to the point of
eminence which we all know him to have reached. It is not necessary for me more than to advert to his
discovery of nitrous oxyde; to his investigation of the action of light on gases; on the nature of heat; to his
successful discrimination of proximate vegetable elements; nor to his most scientific, ingenious, and useful
invention, the safety-lamp,—an invention reasoned out from its principles, with all the accuracy and precision
of mathematical deduction."
The course of Sir Humphry Davy to the highest rank as a chemical philosopher, was, after his appointment at
the Royal Institution, rapid and brilliant; and if he was previously aided by as few of the advantages of fortune
as any man living, he had then at his disposal whatever his industry and talents chose to command. We have
given but a hasty outline of his labours; but it is possible that he may have left behind him much, not yet made
public, for which, science will be still further indebted to him. His works, papers, and letters are numerous,
and the greatest portion of them are contained in the Transactions of the Royal Society. One of the most
popular and interesting of his recent papers is that on the Phenomena of Volcanoes. This contains a series of
investigations of Vesuvius, made by the author during a residence at Naples in 1819-20, and bearing upon a
previous hypothesis, "that metals of the alkalies and earth might exist in the interior of the globe, and on being
exposed to the action of air and water, give rise to volcanic fires, and to the production of lavas, by the slow
cooling of which basaltic and other crystalline rocks might subsequently be formed." We have not space for
the details of these investigations, interesting as they would prove to an unscientific reader; but we give an
abstract of the result of Sir Humphry's observations:
We have hitherto spoken of Sir Humphry Davy as a philosopher. He was, however, in every respect, an
accomplished scholar, and was well acquainted with foreign languages. He always retained a strong taste for
literary pleasures; and when his continued illness retarded his scientific pursuits, he made literature his
recreation. In this manner he wrote Salmonia: or Days of Fly-fishing, in a series of conversations, we gather
from the Preface:—"These pages formed the occupation of the Author during several months of severe and
dangerous illness, when he was wholly incapable of attending to more useful studies, or of following more
serious pursuits. They formed his amusement in many hours, which otherwise would have been unoccupied
and tedious." "The conversational and discursive style were chosen as best suited to the state of the health of
the author, who was incapable of considerable efforts and long continued exertion." The volume is dedicated
to Dr. Babington, "in remembrance of some delightful days passed in his society, and in gratitude for an
uninterrupted friendship of quarter of a century:" and the likeness of one of the characters in the conversations
to that estimable physician abovenamed, has been considered well drawn, and easily recognisable by those
who enjoy his acquaintance.
The philosophical works of Sir Humphry Davy are written in a clear and perspicuous style, by which means
he has contributed more to the diffusion of scientific knowledge than any other writer of his time. His three
principal works, "Chemical and Philosophical Researches," "Elements of Chemical Philosophy," and
"Elements of Agricultural Chemistry," are in a popular and familiar style, and the two last are excellently
adapted for elementary study. His numerous pamphlets and contributions to the Transactions of the Royal
Society have the same rare merit of conveying experimental knowledge in the most attractive form, and thus
reducing abstract theory to the practice and purposes of life and society. The results of his investigations and
experiments were not therefore pent up in the laboratory or lecture-room where they were made, but by this
valuable mode of communication, they have realized what ought to be the highest aim of science,—the
improvement of the condition and comforts of every class of his fellow-creatures. Thus, beautiful theories
were illustrated by inventions of immediate utility, as in the safety-lamp for mitigating the dangers to which
miners are exposed in their labours, and the application of a newly-discovered principle in preserving the life
of the adventurous mariner. Yet splendid as were Sir Humphry's talents, and important as have been their
application, he received the honours and homage of the scientific world with that becoming modesty which
universally characterizes great genius.
Apart from the scientific value of Sir Humphry's labours and researches, they are pervaded by a tone and
temper, and an enthusiastic love of nature which are as admirably expressed as their influence is excellent. In
proof of this feeling we could almost from memory, quote many passages from his works. Thus, speaking of
the divine Study of Nature, he has the following reflective truths:—"If we look with wonder upon the great
remains of human works, such as the columns of Palmyra, broken in the midst of the desert, the temples of
Paestum, beautiful in the decay of twenty centuries, or the mutilated fragments of Greek sculpture in the
Acropolis of Athens, or in our own Museum, as proofs of the genius of artists, and power and riches of
Many other passages in Salmonia gush forth with great force and beauty, and sometimes soar into sublime
truths. Thus says the eloquent author:
"A full and clear river is, in my opinion, the most poetical object in nature. Pliny has, as well as I recollect,
compared a river to human life. I have never read the passage in his works, but I have been a hundred times
struck with the analogy, particularly amidst mountain scenery. The river, small and clear in its origin, gushes
forth from rocks, falls into deep glens, and wantons and meanders through a wild and picturesque country,
nourishing only the uncultivated tree or flower by its dew or spray. In this, its state of infancy and youth, it
may be compared to the human mind in which fancy and strength of imagination are predominant—it is more
beautiful than useful. When the different rills or torrents join, and descend into the plain, it becomes slow and
stately in its motions; it is applied to move machinery, to irrigate meadows, and to bear upon its bosom the
stately barge;—in this mature state, it is deep, strong, and useful. As it flows on towards the sea, it loses its
force and its motion, and at last, as it were, becomes lost and mingled with the mighty abyss of waters."
"I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, or fancy: but if I could choose
what would be most delightful, and I believe most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every
other blessing; for it makes life a discipline of goodness—creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish;
and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights; awakens life even in
death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity: makes an instrument of torture and of
shame the ladder of ascent to paradise; and, far above all combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most
delightful visions of palms and amaranths, the gardens of the blest, the security of everlasting joys, where the
sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair!"
Few of those whose fame and fortune are their own creation, enjoy, as did Sir Humphry Davy, in the meridian
of life, the enviable consciousness of general esteem and respect, and the certainty of a distinguished place in
history, among the illustrious names of their country. "A great light has gone out,"—short but brilliant has
been his career; yet let us hope he has but exchanged his worldly fame for unearthly immortality, to shine
amidst the never-dying lights of true glory.
Footnote 1: (return) This apparatus is of immense power, and consists of 200 separate parts,
each part composed of ten double plates, and each plate containing 32 square inches. The
whole number of double plates is 2,000, and the whole surface 126,000 square inches.
Footnote 2: (return) Memoir—New Monthly Magazine, Vol. I. Mr. Dillon has lately
invented an Improved Safety Lamp, an Engraving of which will be found at page 137, Vol.
XII. of the MIRROR.
Footnote 3: (return) It deserves notice, that two of the most illustrious philosophers of our
times, Sir H. Davy and Dr. Wollaston, have died within the present year.
Footnote 5: (return) These experiments, the last which engaged Sir Humphry Davy's
attention to any extent, were on the application of electrical combinations, for the purpose of
preserving the copper sheathing of ships' bottoms. To this subject Sir Humphry gave much of
his time, and personally inspected all the boats and vessels on which the trials were made.
Although the theory upon which they were conducted proved eminently correct, no advantage
could be ultimately taken of the plans which it suggested. The saving of the copper was
wholly counterbalanced by an accumulation of shell-fish and sea-weed on the sheathing,
which became sufficient, in a short time, to prevent the proper command of the ship at the
helm.
Footnote 6: (return) Abridged in the Arcana of Science and Arts for 1829.
Footnote 7: (return) Salmonia, 1st. Edition, page 161. Several beautiful Extracts from which,
will be found in Vol. XII. of the MIRROR.
Actor, The
African
Festivities
Nurse
Widow
Agave Americana
Alderman, Antiquity of
Alehouse Signs
Alnwick Freemen
Ambition, Lines on
American
Comforts
Law
Sea Serpent
Song Birds
Animal Food
Anticipation, Lines on
Arctic Adventures
Auctions, Antiquity of
Aurora Borealis
Avver Bread
Bachelors, Advice to
Bad Writing
Ball, Lines on
Bamborough Castle
Banana Tree
Bannockburn, a ballad
Baron's Trumpet
Bazaar, Oxford-street
Beauty, On
Bees, Food of
Instinct of
Management of
Birds, Crop of
Birds' Nests
Bishops, Magnificent
Blackheath, Cave at
Boarding, Custom of
Bolivar, Memoir of
Book-machinery
Box-tree, The
Boxes, The
Callender, N.B.
Canadian Indians
Capuchin Interment
Carmarthen, Description of
Cedar of Lebanon
Chiltern Hundreds
Chimneys
Chinese Cities
Chinese Novels
Chromate of Iron
Church Spires
Classical Corrections
Coals, History of
College Dreams
Collop Monday
Common Rights
Content, Lines on
Cottage Gardens
Cotton Spinning
Country Character
Creating Wants
Crime in Paris
Crusades, Epitome of
Curaçoa, To make
Curious Extracts
Currants, To Preserve
Dancing, Old
Lines on
Daubenton, Death of
Dauphin of France
Deathwatch Magnified
Denmark, Education in
Discovery, Expeditions of
Dorchester Church
Douglas, Tragedy of
Dreams, Lines on
Drinking, Hints on
Drunken Frolic
Dutch Language
Tale
Eating, Hints on
Eggs, To Preserve
Electricity on Animals
Elephant
Hunt in India
Skeleton
Public-house, Fenchurch-st.
Emigration to America
Swan River
Encyclopaedias, German
Eskdale Anecdote
Falkirk described
Famine in England
Fashions, English
Fight in a Church
Figs
Flute-Playing, Lindsay on
Forget-Me-Not, Lines on
Fossil Fish
Remains, Gigantic
Fountain, a Ballad
France, Road-Book of
Fraud, Lines on
Freezing Mixture
French
Authors, Anecdotes of
Carpet
Country Life
English
Pigs
Theatres
Fruit, Ripening
Gaming in S. America
Gardens, Gleanings on
Geneva, City of
Gentlemen's Fashions
Geological Changes
Geology, Conversations on
German Life
Schools
Students
Gibeon, Battle of
Gipsy's Malison
Glancin E'e
Glow-worm, The
Grammatical Learning
Gresham College
Gude News
Halcyon, The
Handel, Anecdote of
Hatching Birds
Heaven, Lines on
Hebrew Melodies
Himalaya Mountains
Hogarth, Anecdotes of
's Paintings
Honest Prejudices
Horsham, Description of
Hugonots, The
Hydrophobia
Hieroglyphics
Idler, The
Independence, Irish
India, Voyage to
Indian
Claystone
Corn
Mills
Indian Plaster
Insects, Changes of
Instantaneous Lights
Invitations, Various
Irish
Deed of Gift
Names made English
Isabella Colour
Italian Improvisatri
Jerusalem, Lines on
John of Gaunt
Johnson, Dr.
Judy, Lines to
Kenilworth, Romance of
Kirkstall Abbey
Kiss, Lines on
Kissing, Chapter on
Kitchineriana
La Perouse, Fate of
Lady-Poets of England
Laleham Park
Lawyer, Epitaph on
Lime, Effects of
Linlithgow
London
Birds
Improvements
Levels
Lines on Leaving
Lyrics
Old
Stone, Ode to
Reply of
Long Stories
Love, Course of
Mahogany Tree
Mahomet's Standard
Man, Lines on
Man-Mountain, The
March, Story on a
Marlborough, Duke of
Marriage, Lines on
Matrimonial Advertisement
Mekka, Description of
Melting Subject
Memento Mori
Mock Suns
Moliere, Anecdotes of
Monkey, Anecdotes of
Morse, or Sea-horse
Murder-Hole, a Legend
Mushrooms, Wholesomeness of
Mutton Hams
Mexican Navy
Monumental Alteration
Nancy Dawson
Napoleon, Anecdotes of
young, Anecdotes of
Navarino, Battle of
Noses, Chapter of
Nostalagia, or Calenture
Old Mansions
Oratorios
Oratory, British
Ossian's Hall
Othello, Performance of
Otway's Plays
Palermo, Party at
Parliaments, Epitome of
Peg Tankards
Pendrils, Family of
Persian Cavalier
Petrifaction Manufactory
Planting, Notes on
Poetical Will
Polishing Stones
Posture-masters, Ancient
Potato Chestnuts
Growth of
Practice of Cookery
Pre-aux-clercs at Paris
Public Improvements
Punch, Anecdote of
Pyrometer, New
Pyrothonide
Queen of Portugal
Regal Tablet
Residence, Choice of a
Rest, Lines on
Retentive Memory
Riches, Lines on
River Melodies
Roads of England
Rooks
Roses, Culture of
Sabbath, The
Sacred Poetry
Sanctuaries, Ancient
Sarcophagus, Lines on
Scotch Marriages
Scottish Inns
Scotland, Road-book of
Seal's Wedding
Shakspeare, a fragment
Shaving in Churchyards
Shrubs, Transplantation of
Sight, Lines on
Silk Trade
Slugs, To destroy
Snow magnified
Snow-woman's Story
Solitariness, Lines on
Song
Spoons, Antiquity of
Springs, Temperature of
Stanging custom
Stealing a Sheet
Superstition
Swearing by proxy
Tailors, On
Talipot Tree
Tea-drinking
Temperance, Lines on
Tigers, To catch
Times Newspaper
Travelling, Expeditious
Trial by Jury
Truth, a fable
Turkish Prophecy
University, in Yorkshire
Valdemaro, Vision of
Valentine's Day
Village Funeral
Violets, Complaint of
Wanderer, Recollections of
War, Miseries of
Watch, Mechanism of
Watering-place arrivals
Water bewitched
Waverley Novels
Whitehall, Description of
Whitsun Ale
Windsor as it was
Witnesses on trials
Woman
Wonders of Art
Yew-tree, The
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